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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
George Ebers
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
The Talmud
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
General Robert E. Lee
All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
Menander
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
Ralph B. Perry
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller
A good friend is my nearest relation.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
Sir Walter Scott
Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.
Sir Matthew Hale, from "A Leter
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith
When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
Anon.
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.
Nicholson Baker
